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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. For the sake of the rest of the post, I’ll be auditing an anonymised ecommerce client of mine, but you’ll be able to swap out my page types for your own with ease. Gathering Data.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fairness, that was in the early 2000s, and site speed was barely on anyone's radar.

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User-centric Metrics Matter to Ecommerce. Start with These Five.

Rigor

Reading Time: 8 minutes Whether your ecommerce business is 100% online or you supplement with bricks and mortar, your website is a critical revenue driver. But if you’re a performance expert working in ecommerce, you’re looking at the performance of your site. Why Are User-centric Metrics Essential for Ecommerce?

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How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

Kiran Bollampally, site reliability and digital analytics lead for ecommerce at Tractor Supply Co., shifted most of its ecommerce and enterprise analytics workloads to Kubernetes-managed software containers running in Microsoft Azure. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co. ” Three years ago, Tractor Supply Co.

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Top Redis Use Cases by Core Data Structure Types

Scalegrid

Session Cache: Many websites leverage Redis Strings to create a session cache to speed up their website experience by caching HTML fragments or pages. Analyzing Ecommerce Sales: Many online stores use Redis Sets to analyze customer behavior, such as searches or purchases for a specific product category or subcategory. Who uses Redis?

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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

A trip from a device in London to a server in New York has a theoretical best-case speed of 28ms over fibre, but this makes lots of very optimistic assumptions. Strap yourself in; here is a non-exhaustive list presented in no particular order: Latency: As above, we’re counting a trip out to and a return trip from the server.

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How unified data and analytics offers a new approach to software intelligence

Dynatrace

For example, users generate user data, ecommerce sites generate business data, and service portals generate service desk tickets and call volume data. IT pros want a data and analytics solution that doesn’t require tradeoffs between speed, scale, and cost. But it doesn’t stop there. Teams interact with myriad data types.

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